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January 2025

Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull: music to listen out for in 2025

From stadium gigs by Linkin Park and Lana Del Rey to Central Cee’s long-awaited debut album, there’s plenty to look out for from pop’s A-list – while in classical, there’s a Festen opera and more

December 2024

2024 in Culture
The best songs of 2024 … that you haven’t heard

Slipknot review – metal mammoths deliver exhilarating sonic brutality

Best music of 2024
The 10 best global albums of 2024

Chappell Roan, Hozier and Travis Scott to headline Reading and Leeds for first time

November 2024

Other lives
James McMahon obituary
Other lives: Music journalist who was full of enthusiasm for new bands, wrote for the NME and edited Kerrang!

Poppy: Negative Spaces review – screams and sweetness as metalcore meets loungecore

On her sixth album, the multi-genre star seems to be having an identity crisis – but amid the industrial guitars and synthpop, she clearly trusts her own instincts

Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Linkin Park: From Zero review – rock’s risk takers win big with punchy comeback
They sold millions as the most poppy and emotional band in nu-metal. Now, returning with Emily Armstrong as frontwoman, they remain just as dynamic

October 2024

‘We tried to get Mariah Carey … and found out she costs $1m’: the songs musicians chose for their first dance

Does Charlie Simpson regret choosing Sigur Rós? Did Chesney Hawkes play ‘that’ song? And who picked an eight-minute jam by LCD Soundsystem? Musicians on the songs they chose for their wedding dance, for better or for worse

Paul Di’Anno obituary

Lead singer with the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in the 70s

• • Paul Di’Anno, early frontman for Iron Maiden, dies aged 66

  The reader interview
  Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’

  • ‘Being alive is kind of painful’: the bleak vision of noise rockers Chat Pile

September 2024

Linkin Park review – monster hits perfectly reshaped for a fresh chapter

Back on the road with vocalist Emily Armstrong making their back catalogue her own, the hybrid metallers have found a new audience and a reinvigorated sense of purpose

‘Instantly a very different vibe’: the glory and controversy of Linkin Park’s explosive comeback

On hiatus since the 2017 suicide of Chester Bennington, the rockers have had huge success with return single The Emptiness Machine – but there is disquiet over the frontman’s replacement

Supersonic festival review – an awesome windmill of noise and connection

This festival of heavier sounds from the fringes was a blast, from chilling Gazelle Twin to Daisy Rickman’s Krautrock-folk, noise icons Melt-Banana and locals Flesh Creep

August 2024

Autumn arts preview 2024
All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024

Korn review – a mosh-pit erupting set drenched in dark energy

July 2024

The Q&A
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’

Festival wristbands are grubby badges of honour – so Balenciaga’s £3,000 version is cringeworthy

Emma Garland

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